Interplanetary Copyright (1952)

Orphans in Space: Forgotten Films from the Final Frontier special edition for Roger That! 2021 The orphan film movement, like preservation consciousness generally, has derived energy from public debates about copyright in the twenty-first century. However, concerns about the complexities and expansiveness of copyright are hardly new. Media archaeologist Rick Prelinger keenly pointed us to this pioneering but farsighted essay that, sixty years ago, connected IP and PD issues to life throughout the Milky Way.              — Walter Forsberg “The Shape of Copyright to Come,” Donald F. Reines, 1952. in Library of Congress Information Bulletin